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Billing
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Smokeball Blog
LEGAL PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE SERIES: Slaying the billing beast with automation
By Josh Taylor
by Deborah Savadra You hate timesheets. (Doesn’t everyone?) It’s a hassle to write down every little thing you do. And a bit demeaning, too. Who wants to live their life…
The Law for Lawyers Today
Law firm’s “block billing” helped obscure overcharges, plaintiffs allege in TX federal suit
By Tom Feher, Karen Rubin
Five businesses filed suit earlier this month in a Texas federal district court against Morrison & Foerster, a 1,000+-lawyer mega-firm headquartered in San Francisco. The case is unremarkable in most…
Legal Profession Blog
Stop Loss
A contested hearing has resulted in a public admonition by a Three-Judge Virginia Circuit Court for the City of RichmondThe problem was a bill to the client who had issued…
Wiley Executive Summary
Billing Fraud Penalties Do Not Constitute “Damages” Under Professional Liability Policy
Applying Maine law, a federal district court has held that an insurer did not have a duty to defend an insured mental health agency in a billing fraud investigation by…
In-House Ops
E-Billing Is No Panacea for Law Departments
By Nathan Cemenska - Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions
Nathan Cemenska, director of legal operations and industry insights at Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions, says that complex billing guidelines coupled with the mounting workloads of in-house professionals erodes the effectiveness…
Legal Profession Blog
Self Report Of Bill Inflation Leads To Bar Charges
The Illinois Administrator has filed a complaint alleging billing misconduct by a former Kirkland & Ellis associateIn 2011, Respondent began working as an associate at the Kirkland & Ellis firm…
Sui Generis
Round Up: Billing and Calendaring Software, Cybersecurity, and Millennial Lawyers
By Nicole Black
I often write articles and blog posts for other outlets and am going to post a round up here from time to time (but won't include my weekly Daily Record articles in…
Bill 4 Time Blog
3 Techniques for Improving Your Firm’s Realization Efficiency
Realization efficiency is a major challenge for law firms of any size. It’s simply impossible for firms to achieve a collection realization rate of 100 percent. It also seems like…
TimeSolv Blog
Tip of the Week: Setting Billable, Non-billable, and No Charge entries
By Scott Clasen
We often get questions on how to create non-billable time or expense entries appear on invoices as a ‘no-charge’. This Tip of the Week will show you how to enable…
Bill 4 Time Blog
Billing Value Versus Billing Time
“It’s too vague.” “I’m not sure what I’m getting for my money.” These days it seems clients have a wide range of claims against the billable hour. It seems clients…